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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. We have built relationships with a set of service providers specializing in startups, and have pre-negotiated discounted rates with them. For example, consider public relations.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

aggregates resources from all the VCs. Paul Bianco, CEO of Graphite Financial said, “We were formerly an in-house team at ff Venture Capital, where we realized that early stage startups universally struggled with their finance & accounting function – so we decided to help them by doing it ourselves. AskAnything.VC

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Save and Print These LumaScapes to Get a Grasp on Digital Media [Infographics]

VC Cafe

These LumaScapes are quickly becoming a tool for M&A departments to make their picks and the graphs will keep evolving, says Terence Kawaja , the founder of LumaPartners and seasoned investment banker. Several Israeli startups were included in these charts: Waze – Mobile > Location based services.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. 2) Market .

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Startups are lucky that they can’t afford research, so they test in market and land upon on ideas that would never fly based on what we think or what focus groups would respond with. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And the reason is, there's a bunch of reasons for this, but one of them is that doing a startup is just so difficult. Because usually the first couple of years of a startup are just moving from one setback to the next with enthusiasm. They'll just be a startup.

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